煙か土か食い物07 /Note about "Kemuri ka Tsuchi ka Kuimono" ("Smoke, Soil or Sacrifices")

1-2. Relationship between one and one's parent(s)

At the front of this story, Shiro prefered to keep himself in the state of busyness and had been sleepless for two weeks. (pp.8 and 12)
He was suffering the words of Tatsuko, his grandmother "I feel empty while I stay alive.  "